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Subject: [ISN] Bruce Willis thwarts cybergeddon
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2007-02-26 7:14:39
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0702260114290.5075 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/02/23/die_hard_hacker/
By John Leyden
23 Feb 2007
Bruce Willis will face down cyberterrorists in upcoming blockbuster
Live Free or Die Hard.
Ex-model turned actress Maggie Q will play an uber-hacker out to bring
down the US's transport and banking system with a few mouse clicks in
the forthcoming haxploitation opus.
In an entertaining development, the latest installment of the franchise
finds Willis's character (John McClane) as a semi-retired, divorced,
recovering alcoholic working for Homeland Security. He's aided in his
fight by a whizz-kid hacker he has in custody at the time the
cyber-attack kicks off.
Without giving away too much of the plot, Willis shoots the bad guys and
knocks helicopters out of the sky after after his car gets stuck in
traffic.
Well-known cyber-security myth debunker Rob Rosenberger said the movie
frightens him, but not for the reasons the film makers are seeking to
achieve. "I fear this movie will give 'cyber-terrorism' the hysterical
push it's been waiting for," he told El Reg.
"Remember when the 'Good Times virus alert' spawned a year-long tsunami
of email mass hysteria? I fear nothing less from this Bruce Willis
movie. Imagine Richard Clarke, John Arquilla, and D.K. Matai on a 'This
Week With David Nerdly' where they all scream about the coming
cybergeddon."
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Bootnote
Two years ago, the National Security Agency stand at the RSA Conference
in San Francisco featured a video warning about the supposed threat of
cyberterrorism from Sylvester Stallone.
In a style reminiscent of has-been actor Troy McClure from The Simpsons,
Sly said viewers might remember him from films such as Rambo where he
came up against terrorists. A new breed of terrorist was on the loose
who used computer viruses and hacking techniques, he said, informing
conference delegates that their businesses were on the front line of
defending against attack.
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